| SHAWNEE | Playwright born an American Indian |
| MARTINVANBUREN | First to be born an American citizen |
| IRONMAN | One ancient imperialist gets about, born an athlete (7) |
| PAWNEE | An American Indian born next to a foot (6) |
| COCKNEY | Swaggering about how he was born an East Ender (7) |
| NOBLE | Meaning "noted" or "high-born", an aristocrat such as a baron, countess, duchess, duke, earl, marquess or a viscount (5) |
| WHOOP | A victorious holler or hurrah, an owl's hoot, an American Indian war cry, a convulsive cough or hack, a bump on a racetrack, a form of hide-and-seek or a Shakespearean interjection "Ho!", all echoing |
| LUCE | "The Women" playwright, born March 10 |
| EDMONDROSTAND | French playwright born 4/1/1868 |
| ONEILL | Playwright born in a hotel room on Broadway |
| ARTHURMILLER | Playwright born 10/17/15 |
| PETERWEISS | "Marat/Sade" playwright born in 1916 |
| MOLIERE | French 17th-century playwright, born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (7) |
| SHAWNEES | The playwright born south of Algonquin (8) |
| AUGUSTWILSON | "Fences" playwright born four months too soon? |
| GREER | Bonnie, critic and playwright born in 1948 (5) |
| PINERO | Arthur Wing, English playwright born in 1855 (6) |
| INJUN | A racially offensive term for an American Indian (5) |
| WIGWAM | An American Indian dome-shaped dwelling (6) |
| MOHICAN | Mo, he can sound like an American Indian (7) |
